4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

Anomalous Dimensions of Heavy Operators from Magnon Energies

7 Jul 2016, 11:30
20m
2A (Kramer Law building)

2A

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track G - Theoretical and Computational Physics Theoretical and Computational Physics (1)

Speaker

Mr Nirina Maurice Hasina Tahiridimbisoa (University of the Witwatersrand)

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We propose operators with definite scaling dimension, dual to submaximal giant gravitons.
Our analysis makes heavy use of techniques using group representation theory.
The systems we study consist of strings suspended between maximal and submaximal giant gravitons and are described using spin chains with boundaries.
The system enjoys an su(2|2) symmetry which determines the anomalous dimensions in the gauge theory.
Complete agreement with energies computed in the dual string theory is demonstrated.
Further, the symmetry determines the reflection/scattering matrices for boundary and bulk magnons.
The resulting S-matrix passes a number of highly non-trivial checks.
The boundary condition on the open spin chain is inconsistent with the Yang-Baxter equation so that ultimately the system is not integrable.

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

Prof. Robert de Mello Koch
robert@neo.phys.wits.ac.za
University of the Witwatersrand

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Level for award<br>&nbsp;(Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, N/A)?

PhD

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Primary author

Mr Nirina Maurice Hasina Tahiridimbisoa (University of the Witwatersrand)

Co-authors

Mr Christopher Mathwin (University of the Witwatersrand) Prof. Robert de Mello Koch (University of the Witwatersrand)

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